The Anti-Corruption Commission has made a move to revive the 18-year-old barge-mounted power plant corruption case against deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
It filed a leave-to-appeal petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on March 5 this year, challenging a High Court verdict that scrapped the trial proceedings against Hasina, who flew to India on August 5 last year following an uprising.
A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, set July 15 for hearing as the petition was in the cause list of the bench.
The commission in the petition sought condonation of delay for 5,452 days to file the petition from the date of the HC verdict.
Usually, such a petition is supposed to be filed within 30 days from the date of the delivery of the HC judgement, the lawyer said, adding that the time for releasing the certified copy of the HC judgement is included in the stipulated 30 days
